Event Details

9th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics

Event Dates: Tuesday&nbsp August 19
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Friday&nbsp August 22

City: Leiden State: International Country: the Netherlands (Europe)

Event Type:
Meeting

ASA Sponsored: No

Description:

This international conference - in short ICFIS2014 - unites lawyers, statisticians and forensic
scientists in their interest in optimal reasoning concerning forensic evidence. Technical
developments in biological, physical, chemical and digital forensic disciplines are fast and have an
increasing impact on law enforcement and the justice system. Examples are DNA profiling, fingerprint
and illicit drug analysis, and analysis of large digital datasets for intelligence purposes.
Whatever the type of evidence, it can only be of value when it is properly gathered, analyzed,
evaluated, and communicated by the scientist. Moreover, it should be understood by the legal
decision maker. This requires sound statistical and logical methods, and good communication between
lawyers and scientists.
The conference promotes the interaction between providers and users of forensic evidence. It focuses
on probabilistic methods for the evaluation of forensic evidence, and their use in law and law
enforcement.
The conference will provide a forum for oral presentations and posters. Furthermore, the first day
of the conference will include workshops.
Themes:
1) Evaluating evidence of emerging analytical technologies
2) Epidemiological evidence and the law
3) Education of methods for evidence interpretation
4) Communication between lawyers and experts
5) Legal versus scientific reasoning
6) Quantifying evidential value
7) DNA mixture interpretation
8) Interpretation at activity level
9) Combining evidence
10) Deciding under uncertainty
11) Statistics as evidence